The OLA Team Blog Challenge

It's official! The OLA Team Blog Challenge has begun! What are we up to, you wonder? Well, for the entire month of November, FleaPirates, (that's me), is pledging to make a daily blog post on this blog... and I have challenged OLA members to keep pace with me!

This is going to be a riot! Imagine this... heading into the Holiday Season you've got a whole team of fantastic folks, from all across the USA, ready to offer up tips, advice, recipes, stories, great deals, special sales, funny ha-has, and more!

Now they're working towards winning a prize, but the prize for you will be staying in the loop with all that is going on at OnlineAuction.com lately! So stay tuned, because I am sure it will be both entertaining and enlightening!

This blog will be rockin' in November! You won't want to miss anything, so check in daily and don't forget to leave us a comment or two! On the sidebar to the right you'll find a place to subscribe... we'd love to gain more loyal followers. (Hint, hint!)

All of the items featured for sale in this blog will be available for purchase at OLA... like this one, from me! A perfect holiday gift for a special youngster in your life!

On Christmas Eve, when Santa Claus learns that all his reindeer have run away, he finds the solution to his problem and a new best friend in a tough, little Australian "red heeler", a herding dog named Cuddles. Written entirely in verse, this delightful story can be read to a child, read by a child, or read along with the accompanying CD, narrated by the author, with music by Larry Novak and performed by internationally acclaimed piano stylist Emile Pandolfi.

Find out how you can purchase this beautiful CD and Book Set!

A big thanks to our participants!
Good luck and happy posting!
Ready... Set... Go!

Christmas Is Coming Soon!

About 15 years ago, I started writing a book called “The 12 Months of Christmas.” The idea was to share helpful hints for keeping the holiday season fun, creative, affordable, and stress-free. I never finished that book, but now I’m going to share my hints here, one-a-day, through the month of November.

If you have any favorite Christmas ideas to share, please post them as comments. I'll add them to my list and pass them on.
Here is a vintage Christmas book, listed by Callmemomo at OLA.

A poem, some might say

This is how I came about writing the following poem which has been published. My deceased husband and I were on a trip. I was driving the motor home as he did not like to drive it. I loved to drive it. We towed a hot pink tracker behind it and I had a lot of fun with that little buggy.

We were driving down the road one night ( I like driving at night) and we were in Colorado. Phil had been sleeping and when he woke up I was driving and writing on an envelope I found on the dash. He was horrified that I did not have both hands on the wheel. That is one reason I like to drive at night.....less traffic plus he slept a lot LOL. He yelled at me to pull over. I did so and he wanted to know what I was writing and I told him it was about things I see. Long story short on that one. He stayed awake and I continued to drive but not write while I did so.

The finished product is posted below. Now I thought it was funny. I was not serious when I wrote it. I have been asked if I would let a band make a song out of it and I think to myself "what are you on?" LOL I do not think anyone in their right mind would want to touch this as a song. I was wrong.

And now the poem

ROADKILL:

Roadkill, fire up the grill
if you won't tell, I'll cool it to sell
we'll get us a stand by the side of the road
go out every night for another load.

Fry up some taters, bake some beans
cook up a mess of colored greens
put it on a plate with all those things
and tell 'em it's chicken without wings.

Roadkill it's free game, if we beat the buzzards to it
we'll give it a name. put it on the menu and
put it on a plate and never tell the customers
what they just ate.

Help me with this pig, it sure is fat
get us a lot of meat outta that
it'll be special just for Sunday
freeze the leftovers first thing Monday.

Go over there and get that tire tread
we'll hide it tween 2 pieces of bread
and get that frog, we'll flatten it's head
put it in some blatter, fry it in fat
tell them folks they just gotta try that.

Now we don't want no armadillo,
I heard tell that'll kill ya
we want our eaters coming back
not carried out in a body sack.

Author-Jo Ann M. Cathey
copywrite 2000

Now you know why I did not put it in the talent section. I was floored when it got published and I was even more floored when a band wanted to make it a song. I did not give them the rights to it as it was just stuff that came across my mind while we were driving across the US.

After you read that I hope you realize that I am still that same person, just a couple of years older. Some things I think are funny others might think just ain't right. People say you are as young as you act...well then I ain't gettin'old cuz I love funny stuff too much.

Thank you for taking your time to read my blog. Please feel free to leave me a comment and I promise you if I ever invite you to dinner it will not be after we just took a trip.

Want to see what I sell? Visit http://ola,com/store/chateycathey and remember I list different items at different times so you may want to add me to your favorites. Or maybe not but then you never know what I am going to write about tomorrow.

Take the challenge: join OLAteamblog and join in the November challenge

LIFE IS SHORT, LIVE IT TO THE FULLEST AND HAVE FUN AT IT

Why I am here

The answer to that is a funny one. And I so wanted to be a team blogger. SO I went to OLA team blog through the wrong way and I had 4 blogs and none was an OLAteam blog. I actually could not find my blog I left so KornKuntry found it after a couple of days and informed me where I was. LOL

Now I already know who will be laughing at me but that is OK. We were all there at one time.

I enjoy reading Supergrannies blogs and funny musings so much. I do not think I will be like that but I sure hope she keeps it up. There are others also. I still laugh when I read about the toilet paper an OLA member left.

So back to why I am here. I am here because I want to be here and be part of the team bolg. I want to accept the November challenge. I want to read blogs from other OLA members. I want to share some things from my life with my OLA partners. Some may want to read them and some may not but either way they will be out there.

There is a thread for OLA HAS TALENT. It ask for us to list if we have talent, ever been published, and other subjects. I never posted anything there but I read about others who have talent. I don't know why I did not want to post there that I have been published. Actually I have been published three times for poems that I wrote. I will post one of them here tomorrow along with the way it came to be.

I am anxious to post this blog now to make sure I did it right.

I owe this Blog to Cindy for all the help she gave me. Took time out of her day to chat with me on the phone and help me get rid of the other blogs I could not even find LOL.

OLA has so many special people who are so ready to lend a helping hand to anyone who needs it and if they don't have the answer they will send you in the right direction. 

Since this is a test blog, I am going to attempt to show just one of the items I have in my store. If I do this right and on my own, I will be amazed at myself LOL. Then Korny look out LOL

BEAUTIFUL MILK GLASS BASKET WITH BOW HANDLE REDUCED PRICE

http://www.onlineauction.com/index.php?page=auction:view_item&auction_id=1444642


Okey dokey then. Going to publish this and see what happens.

If it worked come back tomorrow for more of my thoughts and travels

Hoops Yoyo Wallet Hallmark Pink

Look at these very cut Hoops&Yoyo Wallets distributed by Hallmark. I couldn't find the year they may have been released but these two are in great condition.


Hoops & Yoyo Green

Hoops Yoyo Wallet Hallmark Pink

Toilet Paper

Toilet Paper!

Do Manufacturers actually think we were born yesterday? With, maybe, NOT an observant bone in our bodies! I have been buying Quilted Northern Toilet Tissue for a very long time because when I started buying it there was quality and the price per square sheet was the best compared to all the other brands. Now, don’t get me wrong, I still like the quality of the toilet tissue and still purchase Northern.

It is just that I really resent the CON. Go up on the price, that is normal and I can handle that. Being up front and honest about a price change doesn’t bother me. What bothers me is that whoever works for Northern Marketing thinks they are slick when they get double the money by making the cardboard roll, that holds the tissue, larger too! I measured an older cardboard tube and it measured approximately 44 centimeters then I measured the new cardboard tube and that measured approximately 47 centimeters!

In my book they may not be getting double the total price (I haven’t measured the sheets lost.) but to give less per roll and go up on the cost sure isn’t hurting their net profit!

Example: Back in the day there used to be small, medium and large eggs. Manufacturers realized that the small eggs weren’t selling as well so they reclassified the eggs to medium, large and extra-large. And then came the JUMBO. Ha ha ha, a chicken can only lay an egg just so big. Get it any bigger and you will get a goose egg!!! Then think about it…. What happened to the small egg? They are still there but now they are called mediums. When was the last time you saw “small” eggs for sale at a grocery?

Think about it big manufacturing boys, we buyers do know what your up to. I would just prefer you be upfront and honest and just put the higher price on your products. Don’t use the little increment cons.

Don’t get me started on canned products, those guys are just as bad! BP is going down now.

I'm sharing this portion of my blog with you. Have a great day.

Scrabble Tile Pendant - White with Sparkles - Breast Cancer Awareness

October is
National Breast
Cancer Awareness
Month!

This pendant is made using a recycled Scrabble tile!

This auction is for one pendant,
with the pink ribbon Breast Cancer Awareness symbol,
on a white with sparkles background.
Great for supporting a loved one!

It has been crafted on a tile featuring the letter "A".
Pendant only! No chain or cord is included.

Find out how this pendant can be yours!

~ FleaPirates ~

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